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Hey everyone i am building a new pc and i need your help. I have already had a 750 w power supply, a Sapphire Radeon 7970 gpu, a 1tb hard drive, and a ssd. I the majority of the computer time will be spent playing games (mostly tf2), but i would love to stream and gamecapture(X-split and Dxtory)  with this new build and i edit videos frequently (vegas, and after effects). The gaming performance is most important to me but i would love to have rendering and streaming/game capture capabilities. The problem is that i'm torn between which cpus. I don't know if i want a 8350 for the extra cores or if i want a i5 or i7. I know that the 8350 has better streaming capabilities but couldn't i buy Avermedia Live Gamer  to balance it out? As Far as budget goes i already have some of the parts so i would only need to buy motherboard, memory, and a cpu. I am willing to spend up to around $750 on these parts. I Think the 8350 would be a best bet but im not sure. Should i get a i5-3570k ivy bridge? Im even willing to pay the extra money for an i7-4470k haswell should i get that instead? I would love your help. Im not an expert on ram so what whould be best in this situation. as far as motherboards go i was thinking a sabertooth for the intel chips but i have no idea what would be best  for a 8350. Any help on what parts to get would be greatly apreaciated. i also am looking to upgrade to 3 monitors in the future, but i dont know if that would really cahnge all that much as far as what cpu is best.

 

 

 

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Compromise of price and performance: Xeon E3 1230 v2:

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80637e31230v2

 

It's basically a 3770 but 0.1ghz slower, 0.2ghz less turbo with no integrated gpu at a much lower price. 

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Compromise of price and performance: Xeon E3 1230 v2:

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80637e31230v2

 

It's basically a 3770 but 0.1ghz slower, 0.2ghz less turbo with no integrated gpu at a much lower price. 

yah i have seen this before but it seems a little too good to be true 

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yah i have seen this before but it seems a little too good to be true 

It's not. It's an ivy bridge cpu with similar specs to the i7. :)

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